Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all   

Are the Lunas back on an even keel now? Hopefully you've all shrugged off whatever it was and got to enjoy at least some of the half term (if yours aligned with ours..?) You must be fit as a lop to be going up and down mountains, your photos are wonderful but I particularly like the first one :nodding: 

Ooh that geranium's a belter Dusty, I could happily have swathes of them Good to hear baby is settling, does he look like his name yet? 
Dinner in 2 sittings? You must really have a houseful ha haa! 

I like the angle of your white aquilegia photo wort. Mushroom-y compost - that must a sign it's full of goodness is it?

Lurgies all over - hopefully yours is on it's way out too pp? 

Interesting about the compost Farway, it makes a lot of sense. I don't know how I feel about fence post ridden compost cos it's a shame when seedlings and stuff can't grow in it but then if it was proper I'd have to go out and spend money buying dibbers!   Boo to the suicidal plums but yaay for the cherries  

I love your nail brush 2p, that'd bring a smile to my face every time I used it I really like your garden, full and lush and I can almost smell it from here! Aww to your birds cooking their mites off - Lovely. Your near neighbours (?) sound like properly inconsiderate pigs, imagine doing that and dumping the 'detritus' on someone elses land!   Animals. I'd be taking it all back round to them and informing of their mistake. Would neighbour's useless son go with you by any chance? 

Imagine your key being in your coat pocket wm! I love the light in your pic, you must have been up and out early to catch that It looks like it smells like autumn. Heaven. 

Did you get your greenhouse sorted taff? Woohoo to the path being sorted tomorrow - have you a plan for what you'll do there next? If you get sick of looking at that fire grate and planter I'll have them off ya  

OT you can already feel it's gonna be a warm one. It was misty and thick when I got up this morning but it's lifting now. It's 15' out there currently with a high of 22' to come. They say. Feels right to me tbh. Domestic Nonsense and food shopping etc today I want my Fridays back cos I'm not getting stuff done and it's irksome that I've gotta waste half my weekend just getting back to square one. *sigh* I'll have to think how to phrase it just right and put it to Big Boss Man...

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

I did fall for the Brown seeds / free P & P, like Dusty. All essential items. 

Well they are if you don't count Bishop of Oxford dahlia, with the more or less complete fail of my dwarf ones I have dahlia pining symptoms and a goodly blast from the Rev should help

Hmmm.....Bishop of Oxford. Another of my fails. 

Back in the 90s, before he came into existence, my random gene generator produced something almost identical to him. As there was no orange partner to Bishop of Llandaff at the time, Mrs Dusty got in touch with a company I'll call Shiftee Plants, who immediately showed interest and gave us paperwork to sign. Foolishly, we did, and nothing else happened. No propagation, no hint of marketing....nothing.    A few years later,  the B of O was introduced, making our plant superfluous. By then we'd had other dealings with Shiftee, and formed the opinion there was one too many f's in their name! 

NB. If you discover a new plant, be wary. Some firms may show interest merely to keep other firms from benefiting from your discovery. Always look at what kind of plants they normally retail. We were naive virgins in the commercial world and in the case of Mrs Dusty's Chocolate Orange, (not quite the real name) we failed to do that.  

twopenny

Bluey I don't know who cut down my ivy tree or dumped and can't get hold of the one landline I've got.
Both neighbour and useless son don't like gardening or maintenance so don't do it. He does a part time job leaving at 4.50am waking me and uses her car. They live on ready meals which she cooks and despite working in a supermarket he doesn't do shopping, and walks past recycling boxes leaving his 70yr old mum to do it. Why would he ever leave 😬

As for the garden I have rubble sacks drying on the line. The ones my compost came in, so I can roll them and give them back.
Today I'm going to chuck the remains of the tree over the fence and put it on their compost box. It's a charity community hall.
That may make someone respond but I doubt it.
Still it stops providing a rat hideout and lets the badgers through.

Sometimes gardens are not all about smelling the roses. 😵‍💫

 Roland the rat is hanging around longer. I guess the jeyes didn't do the trick. May have washed off. I'll do it stronger one more time.

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:
Ooh that geranium's a belter Dusty, I could happily have swathes of them Good to hear baby is settling, does he look like his name yet? 
Dinner in 2 sittings? You must really have a houseful ha haa! 

They all go home today.    Mrs D and I had more rest yesterday. The men took over on the barbecue, so only salad prep was needed.   I bunked-off for light relief, mowing neighbour's lawns, so I don't need to do it today! I predict snoozio with scorchio this afternoon! 

The wee lad looks much like he did a week ago, but he's become very tolerant of being passed around from person to person and subjected to loads of nonsense babble, some of it pretty loud. As people who speak normally to our pets, we have never understood the strange language some folk think they must use to converse with the very young. With 2-year-olds coming out with words like 'velociraptor' you'd think they'd twig! I've  just heard a 4-year-old murmuring,  "Chaos theory" and chuckling to himself, though I've no idea why. 

After yesterday's, insect-infested buddleia, something different again....a scary place! It doesn't matter how bright the day, this wood on one of the roads leading to the village is always dark and slightly sinister. Yup,I'm in the car. Well, you didn't expect me to walk through there, did you? 

Farway

Up at daft o'clock this morning, couldn't get back to sleep, even after listening all about ants on t'world service. 

Now, as per K Perry I am an expert on Formic Acid, which is classified as a venom, so stinging nettles are venomous, like snakes

Actually & OT, it's amazing stuff https://owlcation.com/stem/Formic-Acid-Dangers-and-Uses-in-Nature-and-in-Humans

Took the opportunity to feed & water the pots at the front, no sign yet of the sweet corn I sowed, but slug trails are evident since the rain, maybe that is the where my SC is? In a slug tum 

I triggered Mr & Mrs Magpie by my watering presence, I was getting a right telling off from the nearby trees, possibly baby somewhere near, but I never spotted one.

Used up the last of my liquid Phostrogen, so ordered more from river supplier. I must have caught them off guard because it's the same price as in the shops, and as a Prime customer, I may as well have it delivered.

Update from Browns, seeds & The rev Bishop are on the way. Tale of woe & skulduggery there, Dusty. I've never had anything that unique to think about, but I can understand how a newbie could easily get suckered.

My apple trees have gone berserk, loads of fresh shoots, just hope my back is up to it come summer pruning time, nowadays, I have to spread it over a few days

Job for today, my knee Hi sweet peas have geminated as spindly weaklings struggling in manky compost. I've given them water with feed this morning, and will try to find a space for them later. Perhaps where the sweet corn should be growing?

They may do something, but not as my cunning plan, where they were mounds of sweet peas. 

Looking like a busy but annoying Saturday 2P, I do hope Roland takes the hint, but I suspect rats & gardens go together

And back to normal in Dusty land, good photo, I can imagine a highwayman lurking there

Sun's coming out, supposed to be hit & miss today

twopenny

Same here. Grey rain cloud but then sun.
Guess the water people have fixed enough pipes and reservoirs because they aren't kicking up a fuss yet.

Sucess with the nail brush so here's it's companion 

LessImpecunious

Have been reading and admiring pics, etc, but too busy to post...

Long, hot, or at least sunny and dry, spell followed by wind and rain (today just dull, mostly) has finished off most of my Aquilegias, but I did manage to take a whole load of pics a few weeks ago, mostly rubbish, realised that most point downwards and hence fiendishly difficult to capture on "film", plus in sun colours are washed out, while in shade/cloud colours are dull...

Before the season is over then here are a few of mine (none have names, all just volunteer seedlings), Aquilegia bogstandardii possibly?

 

LessImpecunious

And, bonus, a few other pics taken in garden recently (ish):

LessImpecunious

Almost forgot! Aquilegia plus bee bum 

greenbee

Just dropping in quickly (as I'm still frantically prepping for the open gardens next week) to say that the Plantgrow mulch and compost look/feel/smell good. Obviously I'm only just starting to use them, so can't comment on how the plants feel about them! However, no twigs, good texture etc. They're a by-product of anaerobic digestion for energy production (or the energy is a by-product of the composting... I'm not sure which is the primary purpose!).